OUT NOW FROM VERSO:
THE BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLE: A MEMOIR
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
A small and beautiful epic of growing up in 1980s Baltimore, from the author of Between the World and Me
The Beautiful
Struggle is an extraordinary memoir from the most important new voice in
the US race debate and the author of New York Times bestseller list no.
1Between the World and Me, hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading.”
This small and perfectly formed epic follows the lives of boys on the journey
to manhood in black America and beyond in 1980s Baltimore, a city on the verge
of chaos. These youngsters needed to learn fast, and Ta-Nehisi’s father, Paul,
was a fine teacher: a Vietnam vet who rolled with the Black Panthers, an
old-school disciplinarian, and an autodidact who launched a publishing company
in his basement. The Beautiful Struggle is a moving father-and-son
story about the reality that tests us, and the love that saves us.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. Coates has received the National Magazine Award, the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, and the George Polk Award for his Atlantic cover story “The Case for Reparations.” His second memoir Between the World and Me was a hugely acclaimed and best selling book, shortlisted for the National Book Award. In 2015, Coates was awarded a MacArthur Genius Award.
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“The young James Joyce of the hip-hop generation.” - Walter Mosley
“A remarkable, blunt portrait of an adolescence filled with danger, chaos, flaws, and tragedy…a love story, dispatched from the frontlines of a family.” - Time Out New York
“A kind of hip-hop Portrait of the Artist.” – Guardian
“The intellectual heir to James Baldwin.” - Financial Times
“A moving father-and-son story…an intense portrait of those whom the black revolution left behind, but who never broke faith with its tenets.” - New York Review of Books
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PAPERBACK: FEBRUARY 2016 / ISBN: 9781784785345 / £9.99
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